Yes, family history is something I neglected to mention and is true. More generally though, the risks of anaesthesia are underestimated.

I’ve also worked as nurse in an endoscopy clinic. Different healthcare systems have different attitudes to evidence.

How so?

Your healthcare providers are perversely incentivised to recommend scoping because it’s an easy money maker, but for most people the discovery and removal of benign polyps is not worth the risks that come with an invasive procedure (IV stab to give sedation and pain relief, over sedation affecting tasks requiring concentration, complications due to the procedure itself).

Or that, and the colonoscopy is indicated by genetic testing.

Get your hearing/eyesight tested. Both can gradually get worse without people realising.

Don’t schedule a colonoscopy unless you have symptoms of a GI disorder, or unexplained weight loss. The evidence does not support non-targeted screening programs.

I’m guessing the gloves are to avoid getting oils onto the metal, so there’s no particular reason not to also wear jewellery over then.

Is the downvote because I’m wrong?

FFS, it’s not like I avoid the news but I had no idea there were people on hunger strike in this country. Absolute failure of journalism.

Who runs the database, and has access to it?

But why hide it? Why not normalise expressing emotions and talking to people about them?

Yeah… No. I’d definitely prefer to see my kid cry than bottle my emotions up to lash out later

Considering some of the islands are still under British sovereignty, and many more within the commonwealth, it wouldn’t look good for the UK to be sharing intelligence that leads to the murder of its own citizens or that of close allies.

I know worse or as bad has likely been committed under the auspices of the war on terrorism, but publicly that still had more cause than the USA’s current status as a rogue state.

If you like science you’ll provide sources. ;)

Yeah, a pigskin (lambskin?), aka a condom.

Right?